Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite an eerie sight when all the bubbles were erected in an engineers yard . |
| 2 | MPC is the marginal private cost of films and reflects what the resources could earn for producers if they were employed in the meals industry . |
| 3 | Throughout the 1980s , changes were introduced in the benefits system , on the one hand keeping out ineligible claimants and on the other improving the system for putting jobless people in touch with vacancies . |
| 4 | The locks were closed again , the process ended , insipid Vadinamian refreshments were served in the visitors gallery . |
| 5 | The provisions in the Education ( Schools ) Bill relating to the inspection of schools and information on their performance were trailed in the citizens charter and the charter for parents in Wales , copies of which were sent to all local authorities in Wales as well as to a wide range of bodies representative of education interests . |
| 6 | His hands and clothing were covered in the animals blood . |
| 7 | We were kept in the police station for a couple of days and then we got remanded to Low Newton . |
| 8 | FIVE UDA blackmailers jailed last week after they were snared in a police sting were the organisation 's top extortionists . |
| 9 | A fire victim hurt in a blaze at a house in Oliver Street , Middlesbrough , was treated in the burns unit at the town 's general hospital . |
| 10 | Grannell was placed in a police car but kicked out the rear window causing £150 damage . |
| 11 | Temporary additional shelving was installed in the periodicals gallery to provide some much needed space for growth . |
| 12 | The abortion counselling clause was included in an appropriations bill for labour , health and human services . |
| 13 | No award was made in the services sector , but Nintendo took the durables prize for its Game Boy hand-held video game system . |
| 14 | They are trying to suggest that erm , somehow this year we 're cutting the police budget , he seems to have forgotten that last year when he was chairman of the police authority , a three hundred thousand pound cut , a genuine cut was made in the police authority budget , budgets were cut to make up to make up to that three hundred thousand , at the discretion of the Chief Constable , and to the credit of Mrs , and her other colleagues in the police committee , virtually no attempt was made to make political capital at that time , instead of which now , when all we 've seen is a request for the Chief Constable to defer proposed new spending , all of a sudden this is presented as a cut . |
| 15 | A useful model was presented in the Schools Council Project 13 – 16 : A New Look at History ( 1976 ) as a way of considering analysis , judgement and empathy where associated skills were tabulated in ascending order : ( 1 ) Finding information — ability to use : an index , library catalogue , table of contents , glossary . |
| 16 | Interestingly , it was a man 's leg that was shown in the police demonstration photograph to avoid offending the decorum and susceptibilities of the time . |
| 17 | Chaot was racing in the CHS division of the ARC and her slot on the notice board was occupied by ‘ DNF ’ . |
| 18 | His daughter Beattie was born in the Bulls Head , and took it over 44 years ago . |
| 19 | He next moved to work for Courage and then on to Kerridges , where he was employed in the accounts department . |
| 20 | The used cyanide was dumped in the tailings area . |
| 21 | Ample storage space was provided in the stores car . |
| 22 | Protesting her innocence , she was taken in a police van from Heathrow to a police station , near the flat where Gemma was found alone after Ms Gibson left for the Costa del Sol with a male friend . |
| 23 | In the meantime , the sheep took off on cue and I could hear they had reached the Lion by the din coming from the main bar , I was put in a police van and off to the " cop-shop " ; when I took off my smock and the stupid hat there really was a frightened wing commander underneath . |
| 24 | This control was extended in the Securities Exchange Act ( 1934 ) , which set up a new regulatory body , the Securities Exchange Commission ( SEC ) . |
| 25 | One of them was dressed in a Bugs Bunny rabbit costume and was handing out leaflets . |
| 26 | I was kept in a chemicals factory for a few weeks , but could maintain my running on a makeshift path around the camp . |
| 27 | He was sent in a cattle truck through the Brenner Pass to Austria where food was so short that he exchanged a piano accordion ( the Fawcetts , it seems , were always able to find the means to make music ) for two loaves of bread baked from chestnuts . |
| 28 | He is the former production manager of British Die Casting which in 1973 employed 143 at Chirton and was quoted in The shields News Guardian on 26 May 1988 as saying : ‘ We are producing double the output of the old British Die Casting with half the work force . ’ |
| 29 | Like their father , and Milly their help , who was working in a munitions factory , and Bongo their dog ( their mother had n't said what had happened to him ) she belonged somewhere else . |
| 30 | James had studied law at university but now was working in the personnel department of Cadbury 's . |